don't mess with anything else. Trust me on this (I'm one of the Devs.)

-Thom

Ok, so taking it as you are a Dev I should use one of those? If I go the SD route will my audio lag? I have a tv tuner card in there now but its ancient and the audio constantly lags and even plays when I'm watching a DVD movie.

Well, There is latency, this is normal because you're digitizing a signal and then playing it back....

but you won't notice it with this card, because you're not playing back the live audio.. you're playing back the digitized audio.

Why would this matter when watching a DVD movie? This is a tuner input card, and is only used when digitizing video from your cable box, vcr, or other legacy A/V device. The DVD functions are handled at the media director itself.

Yeah, that audio problem is from a cheap tuner card. I had that happen with an older card I used. Basically, when you stop the video from your card, the audio doesn't shut off. I use the pvr500 mentioned earlier and it's great. Has mpeg encoders on it, so my cpu doesn't take the load of transcoding. Highly recommend it

Yeah, that audio problem is from a cheap tuner card. I had that happen with an older card I used. Basically, when you stop the video from your card, the audio doesn't shut off. I use the pvr500 mentioned earlier and it's great. Has mpeg encoders on it, so my cpu doesn't take the load of transcoding. Highly recommend it

Thanks for the help guys! I'm really new to all this and I have a list for when I need to get to get the box up and running well. Where is the best place to buy one of the Hauppauge?

Well, remember that it is only the free, over the air tv that is switching to digital. If you pay comcast for regular tv, you will not need a digital converter box. They will still send the normal cable signal through your cable wire. So, standard definition capture cards will still work after 2009. The way they are marketing this, they make you think that all tv is going digital. This is a shameless marketing ploy. so, if you have a cable subscription, you can still use haupauge cards. You can buy them at newegg.com. They only sell hybrid cards now, but they still work with NTSC (Analog).